La Mesa, CA, USA
3 bright red lights hovering high in the sky in an elongated triangle pattern just after midnight 2010 in La Mesa, Ca
Report quality: Moderate61/100
This score reflects report-quality signals on file — how complete, corroborated, and precisely located the report is — not a claim about whether the sighting was a real craft.
- Duration parsed: 300s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (117 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- 1 other report from the same city within 3 days
- When
- 2010-01-01
- Where
- La Mesa, CA, USA
- Shape
- Triangle
- Duration
- 4-6 minutes
- Geo
- 32.768, -117.023 · exact
- Slug
- triangle-over-la-mesa-ca-2010-44d163
Part of a wave
The Navy Encounters & the UAP Era
U.S. training ranges (Pacific off San Diego; Atlantic off Virginia), then worldwide reporting
The wave that renamed the subject. The USS Nimitz 'Tic Tac' encounter (November 2004: radar drops from 80,000 ft to sea level in seconds, pilot visual by Cmdr. David Fravor, FLIR video) stayed classified-adjacent until…
In context
- One of 38 documented reports from La Mesa, CA in the UFOMYST archive.
- California logged 605 sightings in 2010.
- Triangle sightings ran at 8.4% during the 2010s (archive average: 9%).
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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